Tolerance

Foundational

Value

What is Tolerance:

The value of Tolerance is simply to respect the beliefs and practices of others, especially when then are different or conflict with your own.

You are tolerant when you respect someone else’s ideas or opinions, even if they don’t make sense or oppose your own beliefs.

A tolerant person is slow to judge and rarely condemns another person for what they believe or express as their culture, religion, or creed. A tolerant person is secure enough in their own beliefs, that they can be patient and accepting of the rights of others to believe in what they choose.

Tolerance is often an issue in communities and organizations where a majority of the population may feel one way, and a minority may hold a different belief.

Tolerant people are not bigots, are not prejudice, and are always considerate of other people points of view.

Examples of Tolerance:

Tolerance requires both strength of heart and mind.

Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the nation teaching generations to follow, how to be tolerant and fair to one another.

A group of Muslim Somali Children invite a Coptic Christian Child to join them in playing a game.

An American Teacher of 3rd Grade Students, teaches the children about being Tolerant, about inclusion, and respect for other people of different races, creed, or religion.

The Young College Students who went to the South to stand up and march in the Civil Rights Struggle back in the 1960’s.

Anti-Value: Prejudice

Prejudice is the opposite of Tolerance.

A person is Prejudiced, when they feel their point of view or belief system is the right one and the only one that is acceptable.

A prejudicial person is likely to be cruel and bigoted; using force, violence, exclusion, mockery, hatefulness, and other demeaning behaviors towards people with different views or beliefs.

Prejudicial people perpetrate some of the most ignoble persecution of innocent human beings without remorse. A person that shows bias, is likely to discriminate against others, bully the weak, harass the good, and contribute momentum towards violence.

A prejudicial person is a depraved Soul, and should be Confronted or Avoided; depending on Your Judgment of the situation.

Biblical References of Tolerance:

John 8:7: “And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Matthew 7:1: “Judge not, that you be not judged.”

Romans 14:1-4: “As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.”